Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 20:52:51 -0500 From: Jon Drews <jon.drews@gmail.com> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Submission for USB scanning in FreeBSD Message-ID: <8cb27cbf0407231852d41b5b4@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi: I have seen quite a few questions on how to setup document scanning in FreeBSD and so I thought would submit this. Admittedly, it deals only with USB scanning; I have no experience with SCSI. I have used this in both 4.X and CURRENT. I also need to add the relevant man pages, as they are a good source of information also. Anyway here is a preliminary "howto"; feedback is welcome. USB Document Scanning in FreeBSD _____________________________________________________ Go to http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html and determine if your scanner is supported. 1) Install /usr/ports/graphics/sane-backends/, /usr/ports/graphics/sane-frontends/ and/or /usr/ports/graphics/xsane/ 2) run: # sane-find-scanner as root. In the case of my Epson, it found /dev/uscanner0 3) For an Epson scanner edit /usr/local/etc/sane.d/epson.conf and put in the device that sane-find-scanner discovered. In my case, the epson.conf file looks like so. Be sure to comment out the line "scsi EPSON". # epson.conf # # here are some examples for how to configure the EPSON backend # # SCSI scanner: #scsi EPSON # # Parallel port scanner: #pio 0x278 #pio 0x378 #pio 0x3BC # # USB scanner - only enable this if you have an EPSON scanner. It could # otherwise block your non-EPSON scanner from being # recognized. # Depending on your distribution, you may need either the # first or the second entry. #usb /dev/usbscanner0 #usb /dev/usb/scanner0 usb /dev/uscanner0 4) Add your account to group operator like so: operator:*:5:root,$ACCOUNT_THAT_HAS_SCANNER 5) Start Xsane or one of the other front ends and begin scanning.
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